SS Gairsoppa Britannia Silver Coin

Give Merit a call and ask for purchase of one roll. I called and they allowed me to buy just one roll. I have rec'd them and the coins are nice. Amazing to look at it and think of the history. The silver sat for 72 years nearly 3 miles down at the bottom of the Atlantic, deeper than the Titanic.
Something I highly suspect is that the silver on the Gairsoppa was Pittman Act silver from 1918-19. Most of the silver from the Pittman Act silver dollar melt was sent to India for British coinage. This silver came from the Bombay branch of The Royal Mint.

Yea I think these coins are a straight up rip off.

Didn't they also make last year 1 oz ones with this same type silver?

Furthermore, these are 1/4 oz size,, for silver. That's not too common either. Just sounds like a marketing ploy.

I say look on ebay for one.

Yea, I haven't read reviews about them but their ordering policy and marketing smacks of BS. There is nothing worse than being called constantly also.

I also think its stupid that they impose a minimum order. Granted, it is their biz and for the most part, if you are buying silver and gold, you can fork over 1,500+ no problem at all.

But that isn't everyone and I don't think you serve a wide audience either.

I do think you will find someone online selling these piece by piece.

Your experience reminds me of Westminster Mint in WI. You respond to their Ad, get a few coins and before you know it, they are using high pressure sales to up sell you all these coins, they want to ship you coins you don't want, then high pressure constant calls trying to up sell me graded coins, telling me why if they aren't graded they wont be worth nothing etc etc etc etc.

I would certainly avoid Merit Gold.